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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
Can you explain why you think it's a convoluted mess?
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
You're telling people that they "need" to change their subjective appreciation of what constitutes beauty and aesthetic pleasure? I mean this as sincere constructive criticism, you will not win support for sustainability with
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
Nations are highly complex systems. All the different 'parts' interact with one another to some extent. Thus when you double a nation's size, the number of interacting 'parts' will exponentially increase. All of the
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
This comment is simply false. We can have a robust sharing of ideas and cultures all within the context of a single language. In speaking a common language we gain tremendously both in unity and the opportunity for increased cultural sharin
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
A nation becomes divided along linguistic lines when it has many different languages in use within its borders. In a nation as diverse as the US, it is of critical importance that there be unifying forces acting to bring us together against
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
Regarding 4, governments will probably not go bankrupt because almost every single nation is in massive debt relative to its GDP so almost all nations will be forced to print money. In isolation, a single country printing its way out of deb
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
>"carrying out a diversity exercise that is explicitly recommended by organizations who specialize in this field." It doesn't matter that the exercise is recommended or designed by specialists in the "field" when
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
It's also my impression - from my modest exposure to DL over the past two years as a student taking courses - that deep learning must be overcome to reach AGI. Specifically gradient descent is a post hoc approach to network tuning, wh
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
Completely agree that we need to update how we think about freedom in regards to big platforms. In the age of newspapers there were thousands across the country and major markets were often served by many popular newspapers, giving a home i
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
>"The US..." Except laws or strongly enforced social norms surrounding homosexuality, race, etc are universal in the human experience and not unique to the US. Alcohol arguably does "harm someone else" when the alcoho
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
That interpretation of prohibition looks past the very reasons why it was advocated for and ultimately instituted. You mention yourself that drinking caused real harmful societal issues, and it was these issues which prohibitionists sought
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Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868(americanart.si.edu)
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
A recession will come, but who knows if it will be in 2020. There are plenty of things to be concerned about, such as [0], but the existence of explosives does not imply an explosion is imminent. There needs to be a spark in the right place
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Warren Buffett is spending billions to make Iowa 'the Saudi Arabia of wind'(markets.businessinsider.com)
52 points by corporate_shi11 7y ago|86 comments
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
And we sit idly by and do nothing. Yet companies and famous people have the gall to publicly criticize in the most damning terms the United States while meekly saying not a word against the almighty CCP.
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
1,300 to 1,400! The scale of this is sufficient for true cultural genocide.
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
We have already identified variants than can account for over 10% of variation in intelligence. Researchers have gotten around the lack of GWAS IQ test results by using years of educational attainment as a reliable proxy. These results have
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
Of course we wouldn't try on humans first. Animal trials precede human trials.
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
Surely I'm not the only one who thinks this sort of research is necessary. The sooner we are able to genetically engineer improved humans - first eliminating the incidence of genetic disease and second making overall healthier, happier
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
Given that interview skills have an extremely high correlation with the quality of job you are able to get, and that tech companies like competitive Leetcode style interviews, you should try competitive programming on Leetcode and elsewhere
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Scientists Put a Human Intelligence Gene into a Monkey(discovermagazine.com)
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Chinese national arrested trying to photograph restricted US military site(qz.com)
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
Most of the "news" reported by mainstream newspapers and news stations is almost across the board anti-Trump and anti-conservative. It is extremely biased, but tries to keep up the appearance of being unbiased, which is part of wh
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
Except he was clearly "siding" against the US military throughout his early history. He was never impartial (whatever that means), people just happened to like the side he appeared to be on.
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
I was part of a news and current events Facebook group a few years ago, when WikiLeaks was primarily known for leaking evidence of the US Military's abuses in the middle East. Most of the people in this group were Democrats or otherwis
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
Sell the shovels!
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China on mission to create ‘aircraft carrier-sized’ investment banks(scmp.com)
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
I completely agree with you that America's manufacturing is in a deplorable state. My original comment was just pointing out that the intention in opening up China was for mutual benefit rather than exploitation, even though China&#x27
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
"exploitation"... I guess you consider trade and mutual investment "exploitation". China's integration into the global system was both for their benefit and our benefit.
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by corporate_shi11 7y ago
You can get a nice 1BR in or close to NY for $2000 USD. Working in NY the average tech salary all in for someone with a few years of experience is $150k. Working as a developer in the USA is way better than being a developer in Europe.

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